Crossword clues for coursing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Course \Course\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coursed (k?rst)); p. pr. & vb. n. Coursing.]
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To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue.
We coursed him at the heels.
--Shak. To cause to chase after or pursue game; as, to course greyhounds after deer.
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To run through or over.
The bounding steed courses the dusty plain.
--Pope.
Coursing \Cours"ing\ (k?rs"?ng), n. The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.
In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds.
--Bacon
Wiktionary
n. The sport of chasing wild animals, especially hares, with dogs by sight rather than by scent vb. (present participle of course English)
WordNet
n. hunting with dogs that are trained to chase game by sight instead of by scent
Wikipedia
Coursing is the pursuit of game or other animals by dogs—chiefly greyhounds and other sighthounds—catching their prey by speed, running by sight, but not by scent. Coursing was a common hunting technique, practised by the nobility, the landed and wealthy, and commoners with sighthounds and lurchers. In its oldest recorded form in the Western world, as described by Arrian, the sport was practised by all levels of society, as remained the case until Carolingian period forest law appropriated hunting grounds, or commons, for the king, the nobility, and other land owners.
Animals coursed include hares, rabbits, foxes, deer of all sorts, antelope, gazelle, jackals, wolves. Jackrabbits and coyotes are the most common animals coursed in America. Competitive coursing in Ireland, the UK and Spain has two dogs running together. In America, generally speaking three dogs are run together.
The Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act and the Hunting Act 2004 (in England and Wales) made it illegal to course any type of mammal except rabbits and rats. Dogs are still permitted to chase (flush) game into the path of a waiting gun, as long as no more than two dogs are used.
In Australia, dogs may be used to hunt feral animals such as foxes, deer, goat, rabbit and pigs.
Usage examples of "coursing".
As in other Atlantan districts of London, Feed lines had been worked into the sinews of the place, coursing through utility tunnels, clinging to the clammy undersides of bridges, and sneaking into buildings through small holes bored in the foundations.
Do you think our packs are allowed to suffer from fleas, or ticks, or the blackflies of the coursing season?
Carefully she climbed, and when she heaved herself over the lip, she lay there for the space of several breaths, stunned by the change in the air and the coursing exultation that freedom sent through her body.
Kisses--that mute, yet expressive language, that delicate, voluptuous contact which sends sentiment coursing rapidly through the veins, which expresses at the same time the feeling of the heart and the impressions of the mind--that language was the only one we had recourse to, and without having uttered one syllable, dear reader, oh, how well we agreed!
Thence snowy Altels and the giant Blumlisalp flashed it south along the crowding peaks and down among the Italian chestnut woods, who next sent it coursing over the rustling waves of the Adriatic and mixed it everywhere with the Mediterranean foam.
Harry made a face, horrified by the pain he knew was coursing through Snape.
A single lymphocyte existed for every thousand red blood cells coursing through the blood stream, and the leukemic cell was the master of disguise.
He managed, though, despite the small ache it sent coursing through his wrist, and held the sword out for the wide-eyed Patwin to inspect.
If they went into action against coldly pragmatic Big Uglies with the herb coursing through them, they were all too likely to do something foolish and end up dead before they could make amends.
And there are families in Wales who are said to have Fairy blood coursing through their veins, but they are, or were, not so highly esteemed as were the offspring of the gods among the Greeks.
I would like to know who accompanies them, as well as what horses they rode, the coursing beasts that journeyed with them, hawks, even pets.
The roads of light glow before them, around them, the datastreams coursing across the black and midnight sweep that is the net itself.
Again and again it explodes, sending streams of hot pleasure coursing through his penis and into her mouth.
He could feel the webwork of linkages, now, coursing out from the altar.
We stand before a monstrous diorama, the younger Kennedy in the act of receiving the shot in the pantry that killed him, one hand raised, the other down, the head exploding in the impact, the bodies around him in those strange postures of attention which can be captured only in frieze, trapped movement is grotesque and he puts a hand in my back, pushes, sends me lunging through the serim and I am literally in the pantry, the dead air coursing through my open mouth, the dead forms surrounding me and closer to the plasticine than I am meant to be I can see all of the tiny flaws driven into their faces, the cracked and broken places where the dead spaces of wire and putrefecation begin.